Pan greaser



S. C. VIDEN.

PAN GREASER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17,1920.

Patented Feb. 21, 1922..

INVENTOR- V SAMUEL VI DEN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

PAN GREASER.

' 7 Application filed July 17,

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, SAMUEL C. VIDEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pan Greasers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pan greasers.

In pan greasers as heretofore constructed and devices of this general type, a great deal of difliculty has been experienced in causing the greasing element to contact throughout its entire length with the article to be greased and also to provide means which will permit ready removal and re placement of the greasing element without soiling the hands of the operator. Also the devices as heretofore constructed have been of complicated and costly design and have therefore rendered the devices unsuitable for general application. I

Objects of this invention are to provide a pan greaser in which the member which comes in contact with the pan and becomes solled and worn may be readlly renewed;

in which simple means are provided for holding the greasing element in position upon an operating handle; to provide a device which may be cheaply and readily constructed and yet be efficient in operation and in which the operating edge of the greasing element may be resiliently pressed into contact with the pan throughout its entire extent.

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fig. 1 is a view of the complete device.

Fig. 2 is a view of the greasing element removed from the handle.

l1 3 is a view of the handle.

The pen greaser consists of a resilient handle 1 which may be formed of spring wire having a coiled or looped end 2 and terminating in inwardly directed arms 3. These arms 3 extend towards each other from opposite sides of the spring handle and form with the portions 4, 4 V-shaped or sides 9 converge towards to upper end.

This pocket may be formed of fabric or other suitable, flexible material and may Specification of Letters latent. Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

1920, Serial No. 396,988.

r ear series.

or may not be formed of absorbent material. It 1s, however, usually formed of absorbent material. This pocket is usually formed by folding a piece of fabric upon itself and n stitching around three of its .edges as indicated at 10, thereby providing lrshaped re \l-shaped corners. holder.

When it is desired to place one of these greasingelements upon the handle or holder, the portions i, a are pressed towards each other by squeezing the spring arms together and thereby causing the members 3 to over lap. The length of these members 8 in this overlapped positionis slightly less than the length of the mouth 7 of the pocket. In this position, the pocket is slipped. onthe handle and the arms are thereafter allowed to move outwardly so as to engage the .oesses .11 .in, the pockets corresponding to 5 of the spring handle or V-shaped corners 5 within the ii-shaped por- I tions 11 of the pocket and with the inclined portions 4 conforming to the inclined inner edges of the pocket. In this position the spring arms 3 will bear downwardly against the bottom edge of the pocket thereby supporting the bottom edge of. the pocket throughout its extent against displacement when in use so that the entire bottom edge of the pocket may be caused to come in contact with the pan. Byhaving the edges of the pocket converge and by having the por-' tions 4 conform to these converging edges and resiliently pressed outwardly against such edges, the pocket is securely retained in position against inadvertent or accidental displacement. Y

It will be noted that this construction provides agreasing element which is reenforced along all but its short upper edge and is at all times held in a taut condition by the resilient handle. This construction, therefore, provides a spring pressed andslightly yielding greasing element :but at. the same time of sufficient rigidity and stiffness to readily perform the desired functions, for instance, in addition to a greasing pan, this device may be used in the nature of a-spoon to scoop up the lard or other extremely simple and may be readily manufactured out of ordinary material without requiring elaborate tools for its manufacture. It Willftherefore, be seen that the deviceinay be manufactured at a Very small cost, both as to material and labor.

I claim:

l. A greasing device comprising a resilient handle having arms normallyseparated, and a flexible greasing element adap edto receive said arms and hold. said arms closer to each other than in their free condition, said flexible element being held in a taut condition by the tendency of said arms to separate. I

' 2. A pan greaser comprisinga handle formed of resilient material having diverging'free ends and a fabricpocket adapted to be positioned over said free ends and having slanting Walls conforming to and cooperating with said diverging spring arms to aid in keeping said pocket in position upon said free end.

3. A pan greaser comprisin a spring liandle and fabric pocket carried thereby,

said fabrics pocket beingso' arranged"; as to be internally reenforced along three of its edgesby portions of said spring handle.

4-. A greasingdevicecomprising a flexible greasing pocket formed in a substantially trapezoidal outline with one of its parallel edges closed and its two slanting edges closed and With the other edge open, and a resilient member adapted to cooperate therewith and form a handle therefor, said resilient meinher comprising a pair of arms which are adapted to align With and conform to the non-parallel edges or" the trapezoidal pocket, said arms having inwardly extending supporting projection portions adapted to bear upon the bottom portion of said pocket.

' In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses. v

SAMUEL QVlDElL iVitnesses i Mrs. SAM VIDEN, Erroon N; VIDEN, 

